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About Kyle McMillen
NBN Episodes hosted by Kyle:
June 25, 2019
Original Plumbing
When Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos first launched Original Plumbing in 2009, they created a magazine the world desperately needed: a creative and celebr…
May 8, 2019
Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade
Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years. Carrie Baker's Fig…
April 9, 2019
An Economist Walks Into A Brothel
Whether you are a commuter weighing options of taking the bus vs walking to get you to work on time or a military general leading troops into war, ris…
March 4, 2019
Birth Control and American Modernity
Birth control, and the access to it, has continued to be a divisive issue in American political and social life. While birth control has almost become…
January 23, 2019
Black Women Prison Employees
With prison reform a topic of international conversation and debate, Marica Morgan’s Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and…
January 8, 2019
Histories of the Transgender Child
With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children a…
November 9, 2018
Man Out
In the era of #MeToo, Brett Kavanaugh, and Donald Trump, masculinity and the harmful effects that follow certain versions of masculinity have become n…
September 28, 2018
Speaking Up
In a time where concepts such as gender pronouns, sexual assault and harassment, and toxic masculinity are entering and shaping public discourse, know…
July 25, 2018
Gaming Masculinity
Gaming has increasingly become part of mainstream culture, from the continued rise of console and PC gaming to the emergence of eSports. Gaming cultur…
April 10, 2018
The Transformation of Title IX
When thinking of Title IX, most people immediately associate this important education policy with either athletics or a general idea of increasing opp…
February 23, 2018
Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization
As debates on globalization rage in the twenty-first century, many countries and the people within them have been challenged socially, economically, a…
January 23, 2018
Playboys and Mayfair Men
In December of 1937, four men robbed a representative of the diamond company Cartier of eight diamond rings in the Hyde Park Hotel. What made this cri…
December 5, 2017
A Table for One
Why are you still single? This question is often asked of single women, especially those who are deemed by loved ones or friends to be too old to b…
October 2, 2017
Lost Girls
What are your impressions when you think of the flapper? Who is she in your mind? When and where does she exist? In her new book Lost Girls: The In…
September 27, 2017
Beyond Trans
Why do we have sex-segregated restrooms? Are they necessary? What about your drivers license? Have you thought of why your designated sex category is …
July 26, 2017
TRANS/gressive
Before Transgender actors entered popular culture, and before the "T" was included in LGBT, Transgender activism was a small and marginalized movement…
April 6, 2017
American Hookup
"Hookup" has become a buzzword, a misleading concept for students, parents and educators alike--one that confuses more than explains the nuances of th…
February 13, 2017
'Keep the Damned Women Out'
Within the context of the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, elite institutions of higher education began to feel pressure to open their doors to…
January 30, 2017
Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood
Many scholars of baseball and American sports have focused on Ty Cobb as an integral and controversial character in the history of baseball. However, …
September 30, 2016
Masculinity, Femininity, and American Political Behavior
With the 2016 presidential election in full swing and rhetoric surrounding each candidate becoming more polarized, how does gender impact the way that…
September 13, 2016
Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace
Recent controversies surrounding sexual harassment and assault on college campuses have sparked heated discussions surrounding the everyday experience…